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H. 1. BROWN. SHUTTER WORKER.

.No. 310,372. Patented Jan. 6, 1885.

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ATTORNEYS.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT INGRAM BROWN, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y.

SHUTTER -WDRKER.

LIJZZSIFZGATZQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,372, datedJanuary 6, 1885.

Application filed August 14,1884.

T0 60% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, ROBERT INGRAM BROWN, of the city, county, and Stateof New York, have invented a new and Improved Blind and Shutter Worker,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to devices for opening and closing outside blindsor shutters for windows, both plain and slatted, and for securing saidblinds or shutters when open and closed.

The invention consists in a simple and efiicient novel combination ofrods with the frame of the blind or shutter and its spring catch orhook, whereby the shutter may not only be readily opened and closedwithout the open ators leaning out of the window, but the spring catchor hook may be placed near the outside edge of the shutter-frame, or atsuch a distance from the hinges as to lessen strain on the hinges duringa high wind, thus reducing the liability to breakage, and whereby theshutter, when a close or plain one," cannot be opened from the outside,substantially as hereinafter described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents an inner face view of a slatted shutter in part withmy invention applied and with the parts in position forloeking orholding the shutter closed. Fig. 21s ahorizontal section of the same onthe line 00 a in Fig. 1, omitting the slats or filling of theshutter-frame; and Fig. 3 is an inner face View similar to Fig. l, butwith the details of my im proved shutterworkcr in position during theact of opening or closing the shutter.

A indicates the frame of a window, outside, hinged blind or shutter, I)being one of its hinged attachments. The shutter here represented isaslatted one; but it might be aplain or close one.

My improved shutter-worker is applied to the inside face of the lowerrail or portion of the shutter; and B indicates a pivoted or rockingspring catch, latch, or hook, of ordinary or any approvedconstruction,and provided with reverse spurs c c at its opposite ends,for engagement with fixed staples or pins to hold the shutter both whenclosed and when swung back or open, as in the case of other double-hook(No model.)

| fasteners; but instead of placing thehoolr-fastening midway, orthercabout, of the width of the shutter, I prefer to arrange it near theopening edge ofthe shutter, whereby the shut ter will be relieved ofstrain on its hinges and be kept more securely closed in ahigh wind, andliability to breakage be correspondingly reduced; and my devices forworking the hook and shutter make this placing of the hook near thefreeedge of the shutter perfectly feasible. If desired, however, theshutter-worker may be applied to hooks arranged, as usual, in the centerofthe width of the shutter. These devices consist, virtually, of but tworods, 0 and D. The one C of these rods isa long one, extending nearlythe full width of the shutter, and is connected at its one or forwardend with the hook B, and is provided at its opposite or back end with aknob or handle, (Z, also with an inner laterally-proj ecting lip orlip-piece, 0, near its handle end. The other rod, D, is what may betermed a radius-rod, and, is pi"- oted at its back end, as at f, to thelower rail of the frame A, near the hinge edge thereof, or to a plate, 1secured to said rail at said part. The front or opposite end of said rodD is pivoted, as at 71, to the rod 0 in advance of the lip c, whichlatter occupies aposition over the rod D, between its pivots fand h. Thepivot f, it should be observed, is arranged slightly above the bevel orhorizontal plane in which the hook 13 moves, andlthe several parts orrods are so proportioned and fitted that the rod G, when lowered, asshown in Fig. 1, will spring or drop slightly below the pivot f, andbelow the horizontal plane or level of the hook B, till arrested by thelip a, resting on the radius-rod D, so that when the shutter is closedit will be held locked or closed by the dip of the rod 0, or position ofthe rods 0 and D at the hinge side of theshutter-framc, below the levelof the plane in which the hook B moves, and whereby, if the shutter be aclose or plain one, it will be impossible to work or unfasten the hookfrom the outside of the window. By raising the handle end of the rod 0,however, and withit the radius-rod D, as shown in Fig. 3, and pulling onthe rod 0, the hook B will be readily released from its hold 011 thefixed locking staple or pin and the shutter be easily swung or thrownopen, after which the rods 0 and D will drop, by pressing slightlydownward on ICO them ,back to their locking positions, as in Fig. 1,again, and the hook B be engaged with its staple or pin to hold theshutter open. The same operation takes place both in opening and closingthe shutter, and by the position of the shutter-worker, as described,there will be no necessity to more than but very slightly open thewindow and never any necessity to lean out of the Window either to openor close the shutter, the handle d of the rod 0 always being Withinclose and easy reach.

Having thus described inyinvention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with the hinged blind or shutter and its rockingfastening-hook, of the handle-rod O and the radius-rod D, connectedthereto and to the inside of the frame of the shutter substantially asspecified.

2. The combination, with the hinged blind or shutter frame A, of thespring-hook B, arranged in proximity to the opening edge of the shutter,the handle-rod 0, connected with said hook and arranged to extend intoproX imity with the hinge edge of the shutter, and provided with a sidelip, e, and the radius-rod D, connected at its one end with thehandlerod 0, and having its pivot f on the shutter frame arranged abovethe level of the plane in which the fastening-hook moves, essentially asand for the purposes herein set forth;

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A. GREGORY, G. SEDGWTCK.

